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highly touted "Dark Victory". And I can honestly say that I feel I saw the greatest actress in the world today in the greatest movie ever made. I have never had a picture grip me so terribly as this one. At the end, it was all I could do to control myself. The story of a wealthy girl who has an incurable brain tumor, her fear of death, her fight against fear and her ultimate victory over it, it is one of the most gripping and remarkably done things ever seen or heard. And I should think that anyone faced with that sort of death would get a tremendous amount of strength and solace from it. A truly remarkable performance. George Brent shares credit with Bette, for his superb work as the brain surgeon who marries her a few months before she is sure to die, in order to help her win her fight, to pack into those few months, the fullness of life. I have never seen anything so utterly gripping as the scene where, with blindness suddenly overtaking her as a sure sign of the death within a few hours, she turns to go into the house and you can hear the children laughing in the orchard as she goes up to die alone and triumphant, having just said goodbye to her husband and sent him away to New York to a meeting, concealing from him her sudden blindness and her knowledge she will never see him again. 

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